BREAKING NEWS: Scientists say Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting

[spanone]

n/t

www.msnbc.com

[Hannah Bell]

1. rapture!

[Vehl]

2. lol!

good one!

[spanone]

3. yep!!! bwahahahahahaa

[LetTimmySmoke]

4. Woohoo I'm in sex and pot heaven!

[RKP5637]

Sure sounds like more fun than the rapture!!! n/t

[PufPuf23]

27. Love your user's name!

I am a Giants fan and went to games every year between 1959 and 2003. My grandfather played (poorly) 100 or so years ago for the SF Seals.

Hope Lincecum wins today and doesn't get in a no run support habit offense.

At the moment, my position is rural Humboldt county so 1/2 the way there today regards to pot and sex but one knows not what even the immediate future holds.

One neighbor is an Assembly of God (Pentecostal) minister -- fun, kind, and nice -- who doesn't believe in a rapture today. He told me to wait a week before I took his stuff. The bummer is I will have a riding mower but would have to mow myself because he mows my lawn and he and wife ate great neighbors that I would miss.

We cracked up because there is a scheduled PG&E electric outage from 8 PM May 21 to 1:30 PM Sunday May 22.

I don't think the PST Rapture will be clear until after the Giant's Dodgers game today or 8:00 PM PST.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Iceland is such a show off.

A simple earthquake wasn't good enough for them. Oh, no, they need fire and brimstone to ring in the rapture. :eyes:

[hlthe2b]

12. I've been eyeing my neighbor's new Audi all day....

One can only hope! :evilgrin:

[Electric Monk]

5. Not a joke.

Last time Iceland had a volcano blow it shut down air traffic for much of Europe, for those who may not remember.

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/05/21/iceland-volcano-erupting/

It has been confirmed that Grimsvotn volcano underneath the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland has begun erupting.

[spanone]

6. no joke...i can't get that link to open. tried to post it in original post.

thanks

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. A link here:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/A_Volcanic_Eruption_has_started_in_Iceland_0_378069.news.aspx

Note the picture is not from today.

[RKP5637]

9. Here's another site that opens ...

http://eyrarbakkinews.blogspot.com/2011/05/eruption-started-in-grimsvotn.html

http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Scientists think this should not disrupt things

It last erupted in 2004. Scientists have been expecting a new eruption and have said previously that this volcano's eruption will likely be small and should not lead to the air travel chaos caused in April 2010 by ash from the Eyjafjallajokul volcano.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jwQ1xIUHnztYlfFc9az8us8v5jDQ?docId=61a1e3f5fef1496d95caa0df9bbcf6e5

[vandelay]

11. I can't even fathom the amount of pollution a single volcano spews into the atmosphere.

We need to figure out a way to regulate volcanoes.

[TroglodyteScholar]

29. My, you are a busy bee today!

Enjoy your stay :hi:

[Cali_Democrat]

35. It's been raptured

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=271481

[TroglodyteScholar]

37. So surprised am I! n/t

[lunatica]

13. Is this the same volcano that brought flights to a total stop in Europe?

[Electric Monk]

14. No. See posts 5 & 10. nt

[spanone]

15. no, it's not....that was the Eyjafjallajokul volcano.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_the_2010_Eyjafjallajökull_eruption

[TimLighter]

16. Right, that's easy for you to say.

[Electric Monk]

17. On a side note, they have some of the coolest names for locations there

like Grimsvotn, or Vatnajokull, or Eyjafjallajokul, or Kárahnjúkavirkjun, or Nesjavellir, or Hvammstangi, or Snaefellsnes, or Djúpavogur.

It's like they have a whole other language or something ;-)

[spanone]

18. hehehe

:hi: :rofl:

[Diclotican]

23. Electric Monk

Electric Monk

Iceland have their own language - a cousin of old norse by the way;). Its not that easy to understand, but if you read sign and news paper slow, at least we can understand enough to got the message...

Diclotican

[Electric Monk]

26. Actually, from what I've heard, it's one of the trickiest languages on the planet to learn

particularly if it's not your native tongue. It has some really odd grammar rules, and special ways of conjugating things depending on context.

I don't speak Icelandic, but I do have some relatives who still do, and some more distant relatives who still live there too.

[Diclotican]

31. Electric Monk

Electric Monk

Icelandic Is dificult to learn. have never ventured to realy learn the language, as it is a language with some odd grammar rules.. But I can read some of it, but have to translate it, and it takes time.. its little silimar to "Norrønt" aka, old norwigian by the way.. Icleandic was never innfluenced in the same way as Norway when it came to forreign langauges after the black death.. Where most of our scholars was killed by the pleague.. And it happend also in a time where the written and spoken language was verry different, and where a lot of things have happend, and was happend.. Influence from Denmark, German was greater..

Diclotican

[Snoutport]

19. earthquake.gov doesn't have any quakes in iceland showing? link

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/340_65.php

[spanone]

33. Moderate Iceland earthquake starts off the eruption of Grimsvotn volcano

UPDATE 22:35 UTC : Civil defense will ask farmers to pay close attention to their animals to make sure that they are not grazing from contaminated grass or drinking from contaminated water.

UPDATE 22:14 UTC : Volcanologists are overflying the volcano at the moment to examine the exact location of the eruption. The volcano consists of a crater (less problematic if the eruption is located there) and a number of fissures
below the glacier. If the eruption is happening below the glacier, a similar scenario of last year can be expected, although it is far from sure that the eruption will be as heavy as last year’s Eyjafjallajökull.

UPDATE 22:07 UTC : No spectacular eruption pictures or videos yet as the eruption started below the glacier and an eventual glacier burst is not expected before tomorrow.

UPDATE 22:04 UTC : The volcano has erupted thirteen times since measurements began in the early twentieth century.

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/05/21/moderate-iceland-earthquake-starts-off-the-eruption-of-grimsvotn-volcano/

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Anybody see if Jesus shot out of that thing?

Day's not over, yet.

[malaise]

21. Ah well this is serious

but what happened to the earthquake??

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Would 50 of them do you?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4858708

[malaise]

28. LOL

This will create another mess for people in Europe including big sis and her family

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. Is Odin getting pissed at the Rapture folk?

[Diclotican]

32. OmmmSweetOmmm

OmmmSweetOmmm

I don't belive Odin was living in the caves under Icland then;).. But Fenrisulven was living there.. As a prisoner, by the rest of the goods.. And in old norse mytology, at ragnarok, Fenriksulven wil make it out of the prison, and the horrible war wil engufl most of the world.. And even the goods wil die... But in the end, a better, good world wil wake up in the end...

Diclotican

[Odin2005]

36. Of course I am!

:)

[wickerwoman]

25. Poor buggers.

They just can't catch a break. The country's bankrupt and now more volcano damage to have to clean up.

[DemReadingDU]

30. pictures at ZeroHedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/iceland-grimsvotn-volcano-has-erupted

[spanone]

34. Volcano erupts in Iceland, spurs quakes

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said Saturday — just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days.

Iceland's Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun at the Grimsvotn volcano, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. Smoke could be seen rising nearly seven miles from the volcano, which lies under the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland.

A no fly zone has been designated for 120 nautical miles (220 kilometers) in all directions from the eruption. Isavia, the company that operates and develops all airport facilities and air navigation services in Iceland, described this as standard procedure around eruptions.

"The plume of smoke has reached jet flying altitude and plans have been made for planes flying through Icelandic air control space to fly southwardly tonight," said Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, the spokeswoman for Isavia.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43121772/ns/world_news-europe/